Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Accessing Ubuntu Live-CD session without configuring a password

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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While in the process of performing some data transfer/recovery using my Jaunty Live-CD I decided that I didn’t really want to sit right beside the server while doing this work to save my sanity and hearing.

My attempts to enable remote desktop (using the Preferences > Remote Desktop applet) using Vino were hit and miss as I could only connect to the server 1 out of every 20 attempts.

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OpenSSH: Tunnels without Windows (A Linux and OSX perspective)

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

In this initial SSH tunneling tutorial you will learn how to create tunnels to allow access to systems that may not be directly accessible.  This can be handy for remote administration and securing your traffic while going over the internet.

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